Phil Knight Quotes
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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No one person is an island.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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New York's various undergrounds can make for a disciplined apprenticeship, and Gaga takes pride in her earliest fan base of art, fashion and music students.
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
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Academic Marxists were never going to be convinced that anything that happened in the real world could invalidate their belief system. Utopians of the Right, libertarians are just as convinced that their ideas have yet to be tried and that they would work beautifully if we could only just have a do-over of human history.
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I know the American administration is trying to refurbish its image after Irangate, especially in the Middle East and among their friends in this area. No doubt about it. We are following it.
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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
